Judgement

Judgement (or judgment) is the evaluation of evidence in the making of a decision. The term has four distinct uses:

  • Informal - Opinions expressed as facts.
  • Informal and psychological – used in reference to the quality of cognitive faculties and adjudicational capabilities of particular individuals, typically called wisdom or discernment.
  • Legal – used in the context of legal trial, to refer to a final finding, statement, or ruling, based on a considered weighing of evidence, called "adjudication". See spelling note for further explanation.
  • Religious – used in the concept of salvation to refer to the adjudication of God in determining Heaven or Hell for each and all human beings.

Famous quotes containing the word judgement:

    “A man’s conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    “Nor is the people’s judgement always true:
    The most may err as grossly as the few.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”
    —Charlotte Brontë (1816–55)